Sentences with phrase «giraffe necks»

The Squidgebobs are introduced in this pack, they have elephant bodies and giraffe necks and heads.

Now glue your giraffe neck onto the large circle and the smaller circle on top of the neck for the giraffe head.

Not exact matches

How did a giraffe get a long neck?

Giraffes have longer necks and they have the same problem the with laryngeal nerve (down and up the neck) where it connects to the larynx VIA the heart.

it is not like today a giraffe has a long neck and tomorrow they all have short necks.

Hence, giraffe's have long necks so that they can reach food in a dry climate those that are able to do this the best are able to survive and breed passing on their «mutation».

We can never know just how «the giraffe got his long neck,» but like everything else in evolution it is the result of subjectivity and purpose.

Think of the neck of the giraffe»).

Giraffes can bend their necks, monkeys can wave their hands, donkeys can kick their legs... and so can you!

Look up the story of the little girl that got the giraffe head / neck stuck in her throat.

It's the difference between saying «This giraffe has a long neck» and «Giraffes have long necks.»

Which came first, the giraffe or its long neck?

The standard theory of evolution is that animals that randomly inherited genes that produced beneficial traits — in the case of the giraffe, a longer neck, which made it easier to reach tall acacia trees — ate better, reproduced more often and passed these gene variants to their offspring.

The peak - shift effect, in contrast, helps to explain extreme traits and behaviors that pertain to all members of a species (both male and female giraffes must identify potential mates, which helps to explain why both genders have long necks).

Lead researcher Dr Morgan Beeby said: «We are used to observing evolution at the scale of animals or plants, such as the giraffe's neck slowly getting longer over time to reach previously inaccessible food.

It's like a giraffe having children with necks suddenly a metre longer.»

Read previous Zoologger columns: How did the giraffe get its long neck?

«Giraffes have high blood pressure so blood can reach up their long necks, and seals develop extremely high blood - sugar levels, but almost nobody looks at these natural strategies,» he said.

The scientists also discovered genetic clues to the evolution of the giraffe's long neck and legs, which have the same number of bones as the neck and legs of humans and other mammals.

«The giraffe's stature, dominated by its long neck and legs and an overall height that can reach 19 feet (~ 6 m), is an extraordinary feat of evolution that has inspired awe and wonder for at least 8,000 years — as far back as the famous rock carvings at Dabous in the Republic of Niger,» said Douglas Cavener of Penn State University, who led the research team with Morris Agaba of the Nelson Mandela African Institute for Science and Technology in Tanzania.

Now, these gangly storybook giraffes, with their long necks, legs, eyelashes, and prehensile purple tongues, have to worry too about what species they are.

Cavener speculates, «The combination of changes in these homeobox genes and the FGFRL1 gene might provide two of the required ingredients for the evolution of the giraffe's long neck and legs.»

Since then we have discovered a multitude of intermediate links: fish that could crawl, lizards with mammal - like jaws, whales with legs, giraffes with short necks and many others.

For the first time, the genomes of the giraffe and its closest living relative, the reclusive okapi of the African rainforest, have been sequenced — revealing the first clues about the genetic changes that led to the evolution of the giraffe's exceptionally long neck and its record - holding ranking as the world's tallest land species.

Mammals have seven neck vertebrae — even giraffes, who you would think could do with a couple more.

Read previous Zoologger columns: Secret to long life found... in a baby dragon, Eggs with an «eat me» sign, How did the giraffe get its long neck?

People had earlier speculated that giraffes are unable to produce any substantial sounds because it is physically difficult for them to generate sufficient airflow through their long necks to produce vocalisations.

«They are akin to Rudyard Kipling's «Just So Stories» about how giraffes got their long necks.»

Scientists are still debating whether sauropods lifted their necks to feed from the tops of trees, as giraffes do.

Features of its neck bones reveal an evolutionary link to both modern giraffes and their presumed ancestors

If giraffes evolved to reach higher branches, we might expect their legs to have lengthened as fast as their necks, but they haven't.

The problem for the sex idea is that it implies that female giraffes shouldn't have long necks, and they plainly do.

That's the conclusion of mathematicians in Cambridge who have analysed the mechanics of blood flow in giraffes» necks.

Giraffes» necks are long, but there have been longer ones.

Male giraffes fight for females by «necking».

Most people assume that giraffes» long necks evolved to help them feed.

The «necks for sex» idea also helps explain why giraffes have extended their necks so much more than their legs.

His team's calculations, presented last week at the BA meeting, reveal that if a giraffe's neck was acting like a siphon, the blood pressure in the jugular vein would be so low that the vessel would collapse, and stop blood flowing altogether.

Looking more like a moose, the 9 - million - year old ancestor lacks the familiar long neck of modern giraffes, The New York Times reported.

Perhaps the sexual selection explanation for long necks in giraffes isn't dead after all.

The tallest living land animal, a giraffe stands between 4.5 and 5 metres tall — and almost half that height is neck.

The long necks of giraffes date back to ancestors that lived 16 million years ago, according to a study reported October 7, 2015 in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

The long neck of the giraffe is said to have come into existence in this manner over generations.

Accordingly, certain giraffes had longer necks through pure chance, and thereby had an advantage over other members of their species in reaching sources of food that had been hitherto inaccessible to them.

It's obvious that giraffes developed long necks because those giraffean predecessors who received random mutations for longer necks had a survival edge.

While recent findings don't completely support Lamarck's theory that the necks of giraffes elongated over the course of generations of reaching for food, some of the evidence is certainly Lamarckian.

In addition to a decapitated giraffe, there is a scene where chickens are violently killed and someone mentions that one of the characters snapped the necks of several dogs.

We've gotten the first poster and trailer tease for the Tomb Raider reboot, starring Alicia Vikander as the new Lara Croft... and guest - starring a giraffe as her neck.

For example, one month's award was to the staff giraffe, a teacher who was always sticking her neck out for others.

For example, after studying African animals, students might combine an elephant's ears with a giraffe's neck, a zebra's body, and a tiger's tail — a tigraffphant!